vii, 322 pages : 22 cm

"This book covers the history of Japan from the mid-nineteenth century up to the present day. It charts the spectacular rise of Japan - a society which leapt in little more than a generation from late feudal to early industrial forms of organisation - an exceptionally disturbing experience for the Japanese as they left left behind the traditional and Asian and moved toward the modern and Western." "It examines the turbulent thirties and an Empire won and lost between 1937 and 1945, and investigates the major changes after 1945 including the astonishing economic growth that has been achieved since the 1950s. This new edition covers the dramatic political upheavals of the 1990s."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-305) and index

The Tokugawa legacy -- Western challenge, Japanese response -- The overthrow of the Tokugawa, 1860-1868 -- Building a modern state, 1868-1894 -- The Meiji Emperor and the Meiji Constitution, 1873-1904 -- Cultural borrowing, 1860-1912 -- Industrialization: the first phase, 1860-1930 -- Capitalism and domestic politics, 1890-1930 -- Independence and Empire, 1873-1919 -- Soldiers and patriots, 1918-1933 -- The New Order in Japan, 1931-1945 -- An empire won and lost, 1937-1945 -- Military occupation, 1945-1952 -- Conservative democracy and the American alliance, 1951-1972 -- The economic miracle -- The end of the Showa Era, 1971-1989 -- The postwar pattern unravels, 1989-1994

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